Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Felipe grew up in Brazil. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I grew up in Minas Gerais, Brazil and my mother was a cleaner in my home town. Before I knew it, I had a solid client base and too much business to handle on my own – I incorporated, made my first hire, and became an accidental business owner. Thanks to Mark and Tori Baird, Hire Patriots ! #14 Image Credit: Maany Silva.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. Thanks, Adriano!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The industry did that in 2007.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 22, 2016

And since 2007 my life has been fully location independent. I often have conversations with people where they express something like “I’ve always wanted to travel to Brazil” or “I would like to have my own business and control my hours” Well – if you know what you want, go do it. Live abroad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. BusinessWeek named me one of the top young entrepreneurs in tech , based on my work at IMVU.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, is Facebook’s first ever Israeli acquisition and its second international purchase. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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